Category: Library news & events
Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Carolyn Mendelsohn has worked with girls aged 10-12, often described as ‘tweens’ and created an exhibition called ‘Being Inbetween‘. Through photography Mendelsohn has encouraged a dialogue with the girls about...
This week has marked one year since we joined the rest of the United Kingdom in locking down for the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in...
While the doors of the Victoria and Albert Museum remain closed, they have launched a digital platform showcasing over 1 million objects from its collections related to art, design and performance. The items space...
The Crafts Council has recently run Collect 2021, an international art fair for contemporary craft and design. If you missed this fair and want to catch up, all the public and VIP talks are...
Studying Social Work? Policy Press are celebrating Social Work Week with free access to a collection of eJournal articles through their Social Work Collection which focus on social justice and global support. These articles...
The shortlists for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the UK’s oldest book awards for children and young people, have been revealed this week. Celebrating the best in children’s writing and illustration...
Craftivism is a form of activism through the medium of crafts. If you missed the recent BBC4 programme – Craftivism: making a difference – I encourage you to catch up on this by watching...
The New Glass Review is a key publication of The Corning Museum of Glass – it is an international survey of contemporary glass. It was launched in 1979 and as described on the Corning web...
How often have you thought, ‘Oh, I wish I’d see that programme’ when it had been broadcast?’, or ‘I’ve missed watching this other programme on catch-up’? This is where Box of Broadcasts, fondly known as...
Are you a visual learner? Then you might like this graphic feature on HeinOnline. You can get HeinOnline to display a Venn Diagram of your search in the Law Journal Library HeinOnline’s Tip of...
The Baltic have a number of online resources you can tap into – here are just a few: Season of online events on ‘Gardening the mind’ focusing on mental health, and described on their...
Our School of Art and Design Creative Lives talks offer many examples of how creative professionals live, work and thrive in the arts and creative industries. You will gain an insight into the creative process and...
For those of you studying Social Work it’s Social Work Week from 8-12 March. Social Work England is organising a programme of online events and you can sign up for these for free. The...
The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal was established in 1955, for distinguished illustration in a book for children. It is named after the popular and highly influential nineteenth century artist known for her fine children’s illustrations and designs....
Read how people are gaining inspiration from the British Library’s extensive collections, and then go and explore them for your own research. Kitty Bardsley, a freelance graphic designer, has the British Library’s Flickr account...